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Jim Fanning
Website: www.learningplatforms.info
Personal Statement
I am assistant headteacher at Tideway, a secondary school of 650 students on the south coast of England, near the city of Brighton. Tideway was an early adopter of learning platform/VLE technologies (a pilot programme using think.com was set up in 2003, with a commercial product - Fronter - being purchased in 2004). The results of our work into the use of VLEs in the classroom can be found at www.learningplatforms.info. I am particularly interested in the ways in which this technology has the potential to 'change' pedagogy and school structures. I completed an MEd in Technology Enhanced Learning at Stirling University in 2005 and started a PhD in Professional Educational Studies at Sussex University in 2006. The focus for my research is the use of the collaborative tools on a VLE - message forums, chat areas - by secondary age students and the ways in which these enhance student achievement.
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